Gail Waldstein, M.D. practiced pediatric pathology for thirty- five years while single-parenting three children. She began to write seriously in the mid-90s. Author of THE HAUNTINGS (Swan Scythe Press, 2015), her poetry and prose appear in Nimrod, New Letters, MacGuffin, Carve, Harpur Palate, Examined Life, ZONE 3, Comstock Review, Iowa Review, and numerous other journals and anthologies. In 2013 her poem "Rapid" won first prize in the William Faulkner/William Wisdom contest. She received a Rocky Mountain Women's Foundation grant, a fellowship from the Colorado Council for the Arts, and the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation fellowship. Two essays were nominated for a Pushcart Prize. To Quit this Calling, Firsthand Tales of a Pediatric Pathologist, a memoir, was published by Plan B Press, 2006. She is currently working on her first novel in Denver where she teaches creative writing and yoga.